He was part of the 4th Combat Cargo Group, supplying the British Army, RAF and Chindits with much needed food and ammunition supplies in Burma.
Flying over the battlefields to drop the supplies by parachute containers down to the troops.
Also landing at hastily constructed forward airstrips to deliver larger supplies.
On one occasion his overloaded C-46, he was piloting, had a starboard engine failure during take off.
He somehow managed to avoid some trees at the end of the airstrip and to bring the aircraft safely to a halt by running through some rice paddy fields so saving the aircraft, the vital supplies and crew.